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The Bad News Bears
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
PG
1976
1h 42m
Comedy
,
Family
,
and more
7.3
97%
80%
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An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Cast of The Bad News Bears
Walter Matthau
Coach Morris Buttermaker
Tatum O'Neal
Amanda Whurlitzer
Vic Morrow
Roy Turner
Joyce Van Patten
Cleveland
Ben Piazza
Councilman Whitewood
Jackie Earle Haley
Kelly Leak
Alfred Lutter
Ogilvie
Chris Barnes
Tanner Boyle
Erin Blunt
Ahmad Abdul Rahim
Gary Lee Cavagnaro
Endelberg
Jaime Escobedo
Jose Agilar
Scott Firestone
Regi Tower
George Gonzales
Miguel Agilar
Brett Marx
Jimmy Feldman
David Pollock
Rudi Stein
Quinn Smith
Timmy Lupus
David Stambaugh
Toby Whitewood
Brandon Cruz
Joey Turner
Timothy Blake
Mrs. Lupus
Bill Sorrells
Mr. Tower
Shari Summers
Mrs. Turner
Joe Brooks
Umpire
George Wyner
White Sox Manager
David Lazarus
Yankee
Charles Matthau
Athletic
Maurice Marks
Announcer (voice)
Don Ames
Spectator at Ball Game (uncredited)
Shirley Anthony
Spectator at Ball Game (uncredited)
Howard Culver
Newscaster (uncredited)
Running Deer
Spectator at Ball Game (uncredited)
Lesley Evans
Ballet Teacher (uncredited)
Bob Harks
Spectator at Ball Game (uncredited)
The Bad News Bears Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[Ritchie] directs scenes for comedy even in the face of his disturbing material and that makes the movie all the more effective; sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we can't, and the movie's working best when we're silent.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Matthau's perfectly restrained, brilliantly comic performance holds it together.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Remains the best film ever made about kids and sports.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] Rife with every non-politically-correct social tic that '70s America had to offer, "The Bad News Bears" (1976) is a sports comedy that serves as a cultural benchmark.
Rolling Stone
Dan Epstein
A film was released that got everything beautifully, hilariously and even painfully right.
Slate
Charles Taylor
At a time when sports movies can't be just sports movies anymore, it's both startling and soothing to take a second look at Michael Ritchie's Little League comedy The Bad News Bears.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
Surprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Michael Ritchie keeps his dead-end cynicism in check and produces a genuinely funny comedy about a Little League team managed by a lovably drunken Walter Matthau.
Variety
Variety Staff
An extremely funny adult-child comedy film.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
[Ritchie] keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time and obtains first-rate performers from his miniature cast all of the time.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
I've never understood what people thought was so great about this middling sports comedy.
Film Threat
Brad Laidman
Isn't it great when a piece of classical music gets forever redefined by a movie about a bunch of foul mouthed brats? What could be a better way to spend 102 minutes of the truth?
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
The chemistry between Matthau and O'Neal makes it work.
TV Guide
This charming, funny film takes a gentle poke at Little League baseball and the American obsession with winning.
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